Crucial MX200 500GB and Mac Pro 3,1

[flowrider]

One other thing to be aware of is that the Crucial firmware updater (standalone boot) only recognizes the standard four ports. You cannot flash drives connected to add-on controllers, even if they are bootable.
The MX200 is now at MU02, but still shipped with MU01 a month ago.

Actually AKAIK, that's an issue with any make of 2.5" SSD. Here's a post of mine from over two years ago related to the Samsung SSD and Apricorn x2:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/samsung-ssd-firmware-with-an-apricorn-velocity-x2-card.1615759/

Lou

 

[honeycombz]

The drive I have is MU02. Does anyone have any issues with the way the following link is going about what I tried?

http://macintoshhowto.com/hardware/how-to-speed-up-your-mac-with-a-ssd-drive.html

I've read a few things about sim-linking seems a bit above my skillset and unclear the pros/cons and whether it would make sense considering I want to leave the entire home folder on another drive and not pieces of it.

 

[haralds]

The drive I have is MU02. Does anyone have any issues with the way the following link is going about what I tried?

http://macintoshhowto.com/hardware/how-to-speed-up-your-mac-with-a-ssd-drive.html

I've read a few things about sim-linking seems a bit above my skillset and unclear the pros/cons and whether it would make sense considering I want to leave the entire home folder on another drive and not pieces of it.

Since conventional platter drives are really large, I like it to have a complete system. I then use CCC to selectively (not) copy folders to the SSD to set it up as boot drive.

The User folder has a lot of caching that really speeds up the system, if it is on the SSD.

I use SymbolicLinker as a service to create symlinks via right click, then copying to the SSD and renaming:
https://github.com/TimMoore/symboliclinker

 

[honeycombz]

Since conventional platter drives are really large, I like it to have a complete system. I then use CCC to selectively (not) copy folders to the SSD to set it up as boot drive.

The User folder has a lot of caching that really speeds up the system, if it is on the SSD.

I use SymbolicLinker as a service to create symlinks via right click, then copying to the SSD and renaming:
https://github.com/TimMoore/symboliclinker

Can you walk me through this process a bit more? I want to maintain my spinner drive as a backup so I don't want to do anything that will disrupt the ability to boot into the spinner. What folders in the User folder would I want symlinked? Does this essentially leave them on the spinner? This is all new to me. Thanks.

 

[honeycombz]

That symboliclinker program is great! Sorry to drag this out more but I was revisiting the original link again and realized I ignored the ENTIRE user directory during clone where this guy just ignores the user folder. So I left out the .localized, Shared, and in my case Guest directories. Is this a big enough mix-up to warrant trying the process again? There is also a Library folder in Users that's hidden by default that would have been copied over as well which could be causing some of the minor issues I'm experiencing. Thoughts?

 

[honeycombz]

Still struggling with this. Thought I would provide more details. Currently, my setup is as follows... also, I believe this thread has migrated to another topic at this point... not sure if I should move it to another forum or leave it here.

MAIN BOOT Spinner HD:
MainHD/Applications/FontExplorer X Pro
MainHD/Users/myuser/Library/Application Support/Linotype/FontExplorer X/FontExplorer X.fexdb
MainHD/Users/myuser/Library/Preferences/com.linotype.FontExplorerX.plist

SEPARATE INTERNAL DRIVE SPINNER HD*
AnotherHD/Fonts/Font Library/
(FontExplorer not set to organize font library. I am doing that manually.)

What I am trying to do is

MAIN NEW BOOT SSD:
SSD/Applications/FontExplorer X Pro
MainHD/Users/myuser/Library/Application Support/Linotype/FontExplorer X/FontExplorer X.fexdb
MainHD/Users/myuser/Library/Preferences/com.linotype.FontExplorerX.plist
(Leaving the Font Library where it was on another internal drive)

Thoughts? Since the User files are left on the old Main Boot Spinner... there is no active user directory on the SSD to symlink anything to. Support for this software hasn’t really led anywhere... I guess what I'm trying to do is a bit more advanced than I originally thought however EVERYTHING works except this 1 thing. Really frustrating.

 

[honeycombz]

Ok, figured this out... for those that want to know... when Linotype can't find the .fexdb file it looks in the shared directory in Linotype/FontExplorer X/userid_000/ ... you just have to copy the .fexdb file in there on the SSD. As far as keeping that file synced up, I'm not worried about having 2 because I can just copy it back and forth as I won't be switching drives frequently.

On another note... I'm interested in the htdocs directory of my MAMP folder which is now also on my SSD being on the HDD with all the user data... I've successfully symlinked it to the HDD and that seems to work but am wondering if I also need to symlink the db folder as well? the conf folder? Would that even work?